"I've been a parent for three weeks: What do I know? I don't know anything, but it's kind of part of the beauty of it, honestly. There are a lot of instincts, a lot of things that kind of kick in and switch on. It's a beautiful experience."
— Adam Levine
"When you meet your kids you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders and you have to try and become the person that they deserve. My life has changed. And thank God it did."
— Ryan Gosling
"(Fatherhood) changes everything. You literally just wake up, look in the mirror, and go, 'I have no idea what I'm doing.' ... (But) all this imperfection is the best part. That's going to be the part that you remember the most."
— Justin Timberlake
"I was probably not the sort of son my my father expected but this never stopped him from being the most generous with me. He gave me a lot of freedom and at the end was almost the one that would push me forward into being me."
— Mario Testino, renowned fashion photographer
"You just do the best you can, and, as a parent, you know it when you're not doing your best."
— Seal, singer-songwriter
"Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on."
— Brad Pitt
"My father is my rock. It's where I learned everything about loyalty, dependability, being there day in, day out, no matter what."
— Hugh Jackman, on his dad who raised him after his parents divorced
"The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard."
— Warren Buffett
"We go to far less trouble making ourselves happy than appearing to be so."
― La Rochefoucauld
"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.'"
― H.L. Mencken
"You cannot watch the news and live a positive, faith-filled life."
― Joel Osteen
"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I don't judge another man else I walked in his shoes."
― Roy Goode, Godless
"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami
"Iron is full of impurities that weaken it, but, through forging, it becomes steel. It is the same with human beings."
― Morihei Ueshiba
"The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I want to write down everything I know about being afraid, but I'd probably never have enough time to write anything else. Afraid is a country where they issue us passports at birth and hope we never seek citizenship in any other country. The face of afraid keeps changing constantly, and I can count on that change. I need to travel light and fast, and there's a lot of baggage I'm going to have to leave behind me. Jettison cargo."
― Audre Lorde
"... after a course of bitter mental discipline and long bodily seclusion, I come out with two learned lessons - the wisdom of cheerfulness and the duty of social intercourse. Anguish has instructed me in joy, and solitude in society.... And altogether, I may say that the earth looks the brighter to me in proportion to my own deprivations."
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"He plunges into a hundred foes without thought, but before marriage he stands frozen in fear! And there are those who say he is not yet wise!"
― King Sharaman, Prince of Persia
"It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning."
― Lincoln Steffens
"Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out."
― Plato
"The most fulfilling human projects appeared inseparable from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pains. Why? Because no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment. Nietzsche was striving to correct the belief that fulfillment must come easily or not at all, a belief ruinous in its effects, for it leads us to withdraw prematurely from challenges that might have been overcome if only we had been prepared for the savagery legitimately demanded by almost everything valuable."
― Alain de Botton
"Nothing any good isn't hard."
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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